Successful Git Workflow

29. January, 2014

When working with Git, you’ll eventually realize that an important part is the workflow: How many branches do I need? How do I organize them? How does code flow between them?

Vincent Driessen is sharing his workflow in “A successful Git branching model

Another great resource is “Atlassian Git Tutorials” and especially the “Git Workflows” section.


Oracle’s Java FAQ Displays in Chinese

17. January, 2014

I just looked at an article in the Oracle Java FAQ and I was a bit surprised to get this result:

         如何設定例外網站清單?


本文適用於:

  • Java 版本: 7.0

從 Java 7 Update 51 版本開始導入了例外網站清單功能。藉由將應用程式 URL 新增至「例外」清單,可讓使用者執行通常會被安全檢查封鎖的「豐富網際網路應用程式 (Rich Internet Applications, RIA)」。[…]

The solution was pretty simple: Append ?locale=en to the end of the URL: http://www.java.com/de/download/faq/exception_sitelist.xml?locale=en

That fixed it for me … sometimes.


Unhappy?

17. January, 2014

This might help:

The Holstee ManifestoCopyright information

The Holstee Manifesto
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Upgrading from Xtext 2.3 to 2.4

16. January, 2014

This is a summary of the steps to upgrade from Xtext 2.3 to 2.4:

  • The plugin org.eclipse.xtext.xtend2.lib has been renamed to org.eclipse.xtend2.lib
  • In the *.mwe2 file of your DSL, replace EcoreGeneratorFragment with EMFGeneratorFragment
  • Run the *.mwe2 script to regenerate the whole project
  • Merge plugin.xml_gen and plugin.xml

import this

10. January, 2014

During the Flask presentation yesterday, I learned about an Easter egg in Python: “import this” which will print:

The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters

Beautiful is better than ugly.
Explicit is better than implicit.
Simple is better than complex.
Complex is better than complicated.
Flat is better than nested.
Sparse is better than dense.
Readability counts.
Special cases aren’t special enough to break the rules.
Although practicality beats purity.
Errors should never pass silently.
Unless explicitly silenced.
In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.
There should be one– and preferably only one –obvious way to do it.
Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you’re Dutch.
Now is better than never.
Although never is often better than *right* now.
If the implementation is hard to explain, it’s a bad idea.
If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.
Namespaces are one honking great idea — let’s do more of those!


People Despair When They No Longer Experience Themselves as Efficacious

7. January, 2014

Simple fact: When you feel helpless, unable to change your circumstances, and when your input doesn’t spawn any reaction, you despair.


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